Why Canada's housing crisis is a productivity crisis, too

On April 9, Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and director of Harvard’s Growth Lab, will deliver the first talk of The Canadian Standard of Living, Productivity and Innovation lectures — a series of events focused on strengthening Canada’s standard of living hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and sponsored by Savvas Chamberlain. Here, he and Growth Lab senior research fellow Eric Protzer explore how Canada’s housing crisis is holding the economy back.

Canada’s lacklustre...